rag

Example Sentences

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"I didn't recognise the men. Or this woman. Her cheek was so flabby. Her mouth so limp. She was like a rag doll," writes the 73-year-old, according to the French-language version.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

The word “empathy” gets thrown around like a rag doll.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

"You held him like a rag doll, didn't you," barrister Gordon Cole KC asked Ives.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

Liebling, himself Jewish, labeled the elder Newhouse a “journalist chiffonier” — a rag picker.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

Like he was a rag being slowly wrung out by hands twisting in two different directions.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste